Got a few cycles under my belt, but I am for the first time running into some temperature problems. Right now it's 81 in the room, trying to keep things down.

As of now I only have an open circuit that is taking warm air out of the room, through the lights, and into the attic via my Vortex fan. There is also a hole in the floor that would be perfect for pulling cold air in... is this the passive intake?

In a nut shell I am proposing that I attach some ducting to the whole in the floor which will bring cool air from outside into the room. I am a little nervous about loads of bugs coming in with the cool air, but I guess they would be sucked right through huh?

My question is would it work just to suck air from outside into the room and it then gets shot through the lights and into the attic. I am just unsure because I would assume you want that cool air *in* the room, not being pulled through by fan into the attic. Would I be better off just buying another fan (eech, gettin; broke here!) and sucking it from outside and into the room?
razzapiggy Reviewed by razzapiggy on . Question about intake? Got a few cycles under my belt, but I am for the first time running into some temperature problems. Right now it's 81 in the room, trying to keep things down. As of now I only have an open circuit that is taking warm air out of the room, through the lights, and into the attic via my Vortex fan. There is also a hole in the floor that would be perfect for pulling cold air in... is this the passive intake? In a nut shell I am proposing that I attach some ducting to the whole in the floor Rating: 5